Day: December 11, 2014

Ron Beckett

QU Professor Earns $15,000 from National Geographic/Waitt Grants to Lead Research on Gangi Mummies in Italy

A Quinnipiac University professor will lead a team of researchers and students to Italy in January to perform the first-ever examination of the Gangi mummies, whose remains have been preserved in burial catacombs in Sicily.

The Day After the Ejectment

Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum to Launch Digital Database of Great Famine Illustrations

Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University will launch a digital database Dec. 16 containing about 1,500 articles and illustrations related to Ireland and the Great Famine, the worst demographic catastrophe of the 19th century.